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UNOHCHR Critiques World Bank Environmental, Social Framework
April 05, 2016
In comments reflecting UN pressure on public and private actors to implement its business and human rights agenda, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ("UNOHCHR") has called on the World Bank to amend its Environmental and Social Framework to take greater account of international human rights law and strengthen due diligence requirements.
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US Agency: Amazon Cannot Omit Gender Pay Proposal
April 05, 2016
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected a request from technology company Amazon to exclude from its shareholder ballot a proposal from an activist investor, which has submitted the same proposal to eight other technology companies, calling on Amazon to report any difference between men's and women's pay and how it plans to resolve any disparity.
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NGOs Condemn Mining Company Complaint Against Colombia
April 05, 2016
The Center for International Environmental Law and other nongovernmental organizations have called for the World Bank's International Finance Corporation to withdraw funds from mining company Eco Oro Minerals after it sought to take the Colombian government to arbitration over the government's measures prohibiting mining activities on certain wetlands.
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NGOs Produce Training Manual for BHR Activists
April 04, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Oxfam and the International Federation for Human Rights ("FIDH") have released a training manual to teach human rights activists and communities affected by business and human rights ("BHR") issues how best to pressure companies and governments engaging in investment projects to respond to their human rights complaints.
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Oxfam Scrutinizes French Banks' Use of "Tax Havens"
April 04, 2016
Using data generated under a new French law requiring banks to publicize their finances on a country-by-country basis, the nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published a report on the use by French banks of subsidiaries in so-called "tax havens," or jurisdictions that permit corporations to store money at advantageous tax rates, to increase their profits.
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